Thanks Daniel for your prompt response!
Currently, I am using Mediawiki version 1.17.
I tried to add $wgEnableCanonicalServerLink https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableCanonicalServerLink = true; to LocalSettings.php. When I add <link rel="canonical"> on Main Page, the code will visible.
I tried CanonURL extension, but it requires Mediawiki version 1.20.
Is there proper way to accept rel=canonical on version 1.17 of Mediawiki?
Thanks. James
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Daniel Friesen <daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com
wrote:
On 2015-08-26 7:05 PM, James wrote:
When I access wiki.old-domain.net or .org, it will redirect me to http://wiki.domain.co/Main_Page. Now, I want to eliminate "/Main_Page" and make it single URL http://wiki.domain.co only.
MediaWiki does not support this.
The reason behind all of this is due to errors getting when changing of address on Google search console which G wants to make it wiki.domain.co only and not having /Main_Page.
Any advise and help would be much appreciated.
MediaWiki should be setting rel=canonical for the main page, so there should be no indexing issues with systems that want to strip the /Main_Page from the url, both will end up indexing/providing pagerank to the same url.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]